In Quotes... "The more you look at things, the more you see that it's not farfetched." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Neurobiologist Solomon Snyder, in the Dec. 26 New York Times, on the viability of research that transfers from mice to man complex behaviors. "I believe this is what he was doing for a living." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Peabody campus security chief Don Pfouts, in the Dec. 13 News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), on the activities of Joseph Bland, the man apprehended for slashing valuable maps and illustrations from rare books at Peabody and other universities around the country. "If it goes badly, it will hurt him." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mandelbaum, foreign policy expert at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and one of candidate Bill Clinton's foreign policy advisers during the 1992 presidential campaign, in the Dec. 15 USA Today, on President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. "Would anyone care to celebrate the 'Castilian invasion of the Bahamas'? Yet this phrasing is a lot closer to what happened on Oct. 12, 1492, than "the discovery of America." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in the Dec. 15 Chronicle of Higher Education, on the long-term power wielded by historians when they name historical events. "For me the body can say more than words ... [it] can express everything that exists, everything that is." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Peabody's visiting choreographer, Roudolf Kharatian, in the Dec. 13 Baltimore Sun, on why he thinks ballet is the most beautiful art form. "It was a life changing experience." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Former Institute for Policy Studies economics researcher Paul Lande in the Dec. 15 Baltimore Jewish Times, on his 1967 trip to Israel, which led to his opening a Judaica store in Baltimore after leaving the institute in July. "His unique contribution [to the medical school] was to bring appreciation of the humanities above and beyond the usual in East Baltimore." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Former School of Medicine dean Thomas B. Turner, in the Dec. 17 Baltimore Sun, on one of the important contributions made by George Udvarhelyi, a former Hopkins neurosurgeon and the driving force behind the JHMI Office of Cultural Affairs. "Speed kills, and more speed kills more." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Baker, School of Public Health epidemiologist at the Center for Injury Prevention, in the Dec. 18 U.S. News & World Report, on the effect of raising the speed limit on certain highways.